• lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com
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    1 month ago

    Having that tattoo 100 years ago and over decades must have sucked…

    Yeah, it’s me again, please remove the border and re-color Poland, Austria, …

    Nevermind, German lost, change the color back and add borders…

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      I’m guessing the person with this tattoo gets them colored in once they’ve visited that country, which if so I think that’s pretty cool

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        It’s just bragging with your privilege.
        There’s nothing really exciting about having visited lots of countries anymore. Just means you have a couple grand to burn each year on flights, and don’t care about the climate.

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          There’s plenty of ways to visit countries that won’t involve flying. Some of those quite CO2 neutral.

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            29 days ago

            Unless you are a pretty serious sailor you’ll struggle with crossing the Atlantic or Pacific though.

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              It’s possible to crew for others. When we sailed across the Atlantic ten years ago (on a sail training ship), one of the people on board was for the first time on a sailboat.

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                That’s great! What an experience for them. Quite impractical for most, though, I assume. How long did it take you?

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          i cant even dream about having that much money to fly around and get hotels and stuff all over the planet

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      It’s already out of date because it’s missing the 2011 border between Sudan and South Sudan.

      The map is also kind of a blobby mess in the Middle East, with a few countries missing, and they forgot the border between Algeria and Mauritania.

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    Projecting a Mercator projection onto a curved surface… Greenland doesn’t deserve that kind of treatment.

    At least the map includes New Zealand

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    As soon as I saw the map, I thought how countries are not represented on a real size basis in the world map. A quick Internet search brought me to truesizeofcountries , a very cool project for anyone interested.

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    (Proceeds to scratches his Ass)

    I thought you were a Geography Major?

    (whispers sensually in his ear) I am.

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      Luckily, he hasn’t gotten Sudan colored in yet so there’s still time to draw the new border.

      But that’s the problem with a tattoo like this: imagine having to get a cover-up because some inconsiderate separatist jerks won their “freedom and right of self-determination,” SMH!

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      They might’ve got the tattoo before South Sudan split from Sudan.

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    Lol I wanna see on a dudes big fat hard belly. You know the type. None of that floppy belly shit.

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    Do you mean the Democratic Republic of Congo or Congo?

    Also, fuck the mercator projection